FOOD SCIENCE ›› 2011, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (18): 117-122.doi: 10.7506/spkx1002-6630-201118025

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Visual Analysis of Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Extraction Process for Capsaicin

SUN Yi-min1,2,3,TAO Wei1,2,3,BIAN Guo-chen1,2,TANG Hong1,2,SUN Ruo-qiong3,JIANG Biao3   

  1. (1. Key Laboratory of Functional Molecular Solid of Anhui Province, Wuhu 241000, China; 2. College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu 241000, China; 3. Anhui Provincial Research Center of Extraction of Natural Product by Supercritical Fluid, Wuhu 241007, China)
  • Online:2011-09-25 Published:2011-09-24

Abstract: The supercritical carbon dioxide extraction of capsaicin was systematically investigated. Four factors including extraction pressure, extraction temperature, separation pressure and separation temperature were optimized by uniform design method. Capsaicin was quantitatively analyzed by HPLC. In the present study, multifactor and multilevel visual analysis method (m2VA) was proposed to analyze experimental data. As a result, the best extraction pressure, extraction temperature separation pressure and separation pressure were found to be in the ranges of 10-21 MPa, 41-52 ℃, 8-11 MPa and 53-60 ℃, respectively.

Key words: capsaicin, supercritical carbon dioxide extraction, uniform design, HPLC, m2VA

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